The Charleston Papers consist in the main of letters written to or by Clive and Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant which had accumulated in their home; the library houses Quentin Bell's photocopied set; letters from Roger Fry, Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, E.

I will argue that Strachey, for example, hinted at the presence of same-sex desire and various forms of gender unorthodoxy on the part of various 'eminent Victorians' as a way of 'queering' these men and women so as to deprive them of their previous status as icons of conventional morality.

He identifies several recent biographies that purport to explain a life by uncovering or exposing its secrets, such as Michael Holroyd's biography of Lytton Strachey, revealing Strachey's sexual history, followed by equally revelatory biographies by Nigel Nicholson of his parents, Harold Nicholson and Vita Sackville-West, and by Lyndall Gordon of Virgina Woolf, showing that many contemporary biographies follow a psychoanalytical model, peeling back the public layers of a personality to get at the childhood traumas and emotional pain under the surface.

This is an English translation of the work, first published in 1955, that was carried out by psychoanalyst Strachey with the assistance of Anna Freud, the daughter of Sigmund and an important psychoanalytic figure in her own right.

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